Roman Salazar had an interesting 10-month odyssey into the UFC. Just days after defending his World Fighting Federation bantamweight title he got a call that Mitch Gagnon needed an opponent in Nova Scotia. The fight was in less than a week, and he was only eight days removed from having fought Jose Carbajal in Chandler, Ariz.
It was one of those badly timed opportunities you just can’t refuse.
“You know, there I was getting the call from that Las Vegas area code,” Salazar remembers. “My wife and I had just got married, and I was like, do I owe money to somebody in Las Vegas or something?